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Since 2005 when the World Health Organisation started to advocate serious viral disease planning the United Kingdom ran or participated in nine major simulation exercises on pandemics, some of them pan-European initiatives. In the light of this, our 'operating environment' as advocates of disaster risk reduction has changed drastically.
When I think about how things have changed, I have to cast my mind back to 2005 when as a Civil Servant, I co-authored ‘Better Practice Guide- lines for Government Contact Centres. What have we seen happen since the pandemic? At the start of the pandemic, we moved 1,000 employees from the office to work at home within a 3-week period.
But there isn't a rush to expand it, or to create conditions where sustainable modes are first choice for getting around. But that has been by the choice of the tenants, and was facilitated by a transit system that once operated much more reliably than it does at present. If you live within that transit footprint, it works decently.
It's an old rail corridor that was acquired by the Utah Transit Authority (" From rails to trails ," Deseret News , 2005) and is a joint project with the communities it passes through. It's not in operation because of covid but there is a miniature railroad park, S&S Shoreline Railroad, abutting the trail in Farmington.
DC does not understand its "unique selling proposition" or "core competency" is being transit- and sustainable mobility-centric. Create the DMV Transport Association (" The answer is: Create a single multi-state/regional multi-modal transit planning, management, and operations authority association ") 2.
Note that the original PL series on Silver Spring did discuss an intra core shuttle system to complement their parking structures and to allow for converting Fenton Avenue to a sustainable mobility corridor. Another example is the taxi collectif program of the STM transit system in Montreal , which operates at end of line stations.
As more of the world becomes connected online, revolutionaries across the globe are being empowered like never before although not all are successful as sustaining the movement the use of information communication technologies (ICT) are critical in developing and executing modern social movements.
the Diffusion of Innovations Curve of Everett Rogers ," (2018) -- " Yes the neighborhood will change, but it will take 10-25 years ," (2018) -- " House flipping as reproduction of space ," (2018) -- " Q: Could a community land trust help solve D.C.s I and many activists were against public funding, but it happened anyway.
In 2005, I served on the advisory committee for the International Public Markets Conference which covered both DC and Baltimore that year, led a tour, etc. I first proposed to the city creating TMDs in 2005/2006. It should support sustainable modes (biking, walking, transit improvements) as well as parking. They still haven't.
1 My view is that the current way they operate – which varies considerably between the four agencies – would be significantly improved if they all applied three key principles: Do risk-adjusting on a practical and easily implementable basis, very much enabled by today’s information processing capabilities.
Operating safely isn’t a choice. I guess WMATA still has this opportunity with upcoming 50th anniversary of the start of service--2026--to get their "stuff" together, rebuild the consensus, actually figure out how to operate the system, grow it, if possible, etc. We are keeping customers at the center of everything we do.
Since 2005 or 2006 I have been recommending that the city create Traffic Management Districts as a way to coordinate transportation management and improvements at the commercial district scale (e.g. for Downtown, H Street NE, Capitol Hill, etc.).
Because governance is about sustained efforts, it is important to think in agenda terms rather than about stand-alone issues. In terms of operating the business, the Main Street recommendation is that a traditional retailer spend no more than 4% of its gross revenue on rent. Sustainable mobility. I have over 12,000 entries.
Transit/transportation as a set of networks operating at different scales : this extends the argument laid out in the 2006 Arlington County Master Transportation Plan, where they defined their primary and secondary transit networks. ( Sustainable mobility platform : this builds off transit to include urban design and multiple modes.
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